Okay, I said I’d be talking about this in my second installment of Online Dating Articles, so here I go!

We are now in the 21st century, the internet is brimming with activity. When internet dating got it’s first start, people thought only “losers” did the internet dating thing, (not unlike the personal ads of the 70’s and 80’s you read in the newspaper). Now, online dating is becoming widely accepted. Online dating and match making services are a lot more popular.

However, with online dating, you have a virtual cornucopia of selection. Yep, that’s right, you have the pick of the litter! Isn’t’ that great? You would think, right? However, there’s a drawback to this bountiful amount of available ads on the internet, some human beings just can’t seem to decide on one person and stick with that person, at least for now…..at least until……the first date!

When it comes to online dating, there’s a “kid in a candy store” mentality or being one of those people in a rather large car lot looking for a good deal. You see all these wonderful things. People jump from item to item saying, “Oh look, this one has power steering!” “Oh , awesome, this one has gunmetal grey” and then they RUN to the other end of the row and see some feature on a car that’s awesome and so on…they just can’t seem to make a decision, so they just keep on going and going, practically non-stop.

That’s what online dating is to some people, hate to draw conclusions about this, but this mainly applies to women, because from what I have heard from some online testimonials, women get slammed with as much mail as a pop celebrity. Chances are, with this method of selection, if you’re one of those men, let’s just say, I wouldn’t hold my breath waiting for her response. Take a number, because her dance card is full.

I mean when one has virtually a limitless amount of people to choose from, this would put that person to only pick the cream of the crop, and perhaps place the person, who probably normally wouldn’t be as picky in the early 1990’s (when the internet wasn’t around) to magnify that person’s level of pickiness a hundred fold.

Also, I believe this whole online dating thing has really made things more impersonal. Sometimes when we’re chatting with an individual on the other end of the screen, some people fail to believe if they do something to wrong them, like stand them up, play head games with them, the person (the one who did the wronging) really feels no obligation to the person on the other end of the internet cable line. As far as they’re concerned, they feel no real reason to explain themselves to them, because all they are too them is just computer text on the screen, they turn off their computers, go to bed, and that person is forgotten. It is easier to behave inappropriately when we’re not face to face with the other party. Or to just act with complacence, which is a more popular emotion these days.

Heck, sometimes the internet has replaced the phone in certain ways, I hear that some single people prefer to not even use the phone, and rely totally on IM’s or Emails instead, how impersonal can ya get, eh? I heard those people say, “I’m not much of a phone person.” But let’s face it, some of us like to hear their voices for the first time, and not meet them blindly without at least hearing them first.

It’s a bit unfortunate how impersonal communication has become between individuals these days.

Which would probably bring me to my next short article on “People who prefer to communicate via the internet, instead of the phone” or perhaps a short title “E.T., Email Home!!” (Hey, I’m workin’ on it!)

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